Category Archives: Healing

Recently, I mentioned Jill Bolte Taylor’s “Stroke of Insight” presentation and experience. She has done a 4 part interview with Oprah, available here for viewing or download: http://www.oprah.com/spiritself/oss/guest/oss_guest_jboltetaylor.jhtml The Soul series originates from XM radio so the format is a videotaped radio interview. Upcoming speakers in the Soul series release include Wayne Dyer, Byron Katie, and more. Davidya

I’ve talked in here a bunch about emotional healing. Physical healing is much the same. I have not had a lot of issues there but have had some contact with people who have. I can only offer a few observations that may help a little, should you have a healing journey. First thing is acceptance. As long as you are resisting what is, including the physical distress, healing is compromised. This includes even pain. Pain is the bodies signal that something is wrong. Allowing the signal means it is accepted and it will subside. But as long as you push … Continue Reading… →

From a Discussion on Shilpan’s guest post. (now offline) Hans Selye was an early researcher into stress. He defined 2 types – distress and eustress. The second of course a positive stress like falling in love. Both can have similar biological responses but one tends to be a motivator, the other a demotivator, as you observe. Stress has a tendency to trigger the fight or flight (or freeze) response which shuts down digestion and the forebrain, the place where we are more conscious and have more problem solving skills. As you observe, stress thus reduces our ability to deal with … Continue Reading… →

Pain, as in physical pain, can be a deeply challenging experience. It can overshadow our experience and quality of life in a number of ways. But the surprise is, you can handle it in much the same way as emotional pain. The saying “what you resist persists” also holds true. It can certainly be difficult to allow and go into the pain. But this acknowledges the signal from the body. It will often stop when its fully allowed, the signal heard. At an introduction to EFT yesterday, Andy Bryce, one of only 2 master practitioners in Canada, talked about some … Continue Reading… →

Press on a new hyertension meta-study: Ponder This: Meditation Can Lower High Blood Pressure David O’Hara (David O’Hara is a writer and researcher in the field of natural health. He is a graduate of the University of California Santa Cruz and has traveled extensively. He lives with his wife in the south of Spain.) According to a recent report in the American Journal of Hypertension, meditation really can lower your blood pressure. Of course, its practitioners have known this for years but now their claims have some high-level reinforcement.Many earlier studies also lent support to meditation for blood pressure reduction … Continue Reading… →

In the 18 minute clip on the below link, Neuroanatomist Jill Bolte Taylor talks at the TED conference about her personal experience of a stroke. She had a blood vessel burst in her left brain causing her to gradually lose functions. Because of her background, she was able to monitor the shift and explore the consequences as a scientist. The experience also gave her a spiritual epiphany. She describes the experience and her discoveries. A remarkable story. http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/229 In the clip, she describes (and shows) the 2 hemispheres of the brain. She goes over how the hemispheres differ, that the … Continue Reading… →

A couple of times on this site, I have mentioned Adam, the Dreamhealer. (on Biology and Whats Up) When I first met him, he was still a teenager, just starting university. I was attending a conference up at SFU and when he came up on the schedule as a ‘healer’, I expected some sort of frail sensitive. I was most surprised to see a fit, handsome young man, a jock even. He was limping slightly, due to an injury he had just sustained kick-boxing. Hadn’t had time to heal himself. My preconceptions about healers were destroyed that evening. He made … Continue Reading… →

From a discussion on Adam, the Dreamhealer and unexplained phenomenon. As Adam has observed, in our culture we focus on the physical, the surface values of our experience. Less physical things like electricity and magnetism are somewhat mysterious. Many people are only vaguely aware that they have thoughts, and feelings are often these apparently random events that wash over us. We have no context for subtler values of anything. Physics however tells us there is a whole host of subtler values, many with different laws of nature operating. If we do a systematic study on the subjective side of the … Continue Reading… →

A One Minute video on a research project to test the effect of food with an intention on the emotional well-being of the consumer. The chicken soup effect. http://oneminuteshift.com/videos/dean_radin/intentional_chocolate

In this article Adam, the Dreamhealer, talks about his University studies of molecular biology. “Through studying Molecular Biology, I am increasing my understanding of healing as I “see” it. Many people seem to be under the impression that “modern medicine” understands almost everything that is happening in our cells since the sequencing of the human genome was completed in 2003. While studying molecular biology and biochemistry it has become apparent to me just how little we actually know.” [article removed] http://dreamhealer.com/

Judith is a highly intuitive Psychiatrist I met in Vancouver about a year ago. She gave a presentation on empathy and empathics. Recently, she has been releasing a series of short videos on YouTube. “I’ll cover topics including intuition, dreams, transforming negative emotions, and how to tap the power within.” Today, I’m pleased to offer “Intuitive Decision Making: The Power of Positive Intention.” http://www.youtube.com/judithorloffmd